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County Approves $1 ,850 , 000 For Canal Improvements RIVERHEAD- The Suffolk Board of Supervisors Monday authorized the expenditure of $1 , 850 , 000 for construction of new locks and other improve- ments to the Shinnecock Canal at Hampton Bays . In separate resolutions , a- dopted unanimousl y the Board authori7ed the County Public Works Department to prepare contract plans and specifi- cations , and authorized the is- suance of $1 , 755 , 000 in serial bonds and $95 , 000 in capita l notes. The canal was co nstructed in the late l890 , s and the one set of lock s were built in I9i9. The canal , almost a mile long, joins the tJiinnecock and Peconic Bays. The present locks , 26 feet wide , enclose a 116-foot- long body of water. The new lock s are to be 41 feet in width , 250 feet apart. Also to be con- structed are three new tide gates , which will replace the original six tide gates. The new locks will be just south of the origin- al locks . At high water the canal has a depth of from 12 to 26 feet. There is a two- foot differential in tide between the two water bodies. There is a minimum of 21-foot clearance under the old Shinnecock Canal Bridge. County Executive H . Lee Den- nison said preparation of plans will take nine mo nths , and con- structio n would tak e a year. He estimated construction would begin in late 1965. Construction of the new locks was recommended in a report forwarded to the Supervisors two months ago by the Harrison Web- er consulting engineering firm of Bellport. The report , which cost $20 , 000 , and was author- ized by the County , also recom- mends constructio n ol « canal on the north fork of Suffolk , at A rshamomaque in Southold Town. Further studies are now being made on the feasibility of this canal. Incl uded in these studies are the difference in tides and salinity of the Pe- (Continued on page 4) A ward Contracts for New $1950 , 000 Eagle Dr. Sch . ARCHITECTS RENDERING shows the voter-approved 1 , 200-pupU , $1 , 950 , 000 Eagle Drive Elementary School , to be constructed on the site presented to the school district in 1963 by the Eagle Esta tes Construction Company, located between Maine A venue and Rhode Island Avenue , just north of Wave A venue in Medford. Dr. Thomas F. Loob y, super- intendent of schools , announced today that contracts for the voter- approved 1 , 200-puptl , $1 , 950 , 000 Eagle Drive Elementary School . to be constructed on the site presented to the school district ln 1963 b y the Eagle Estates Con- struction company, located be- tween Maine A venue and Rhode Island Avenue , Just north of Wave Avenue , were awarded by the Board of Education to the low bidders as follows: General construction , Sofarelli of Huntington Station, $1 , 086 , 350; heating and ventilating, Willner Heating Co. of N. Y . City, $182 , - 700; plumbing and sanitation , Grant Geelan & Sons of Flushing, $107 , 575; electrical , Meeker Electric Co of Lake Ronkon- koma , $162 , 150. The 45-classroom building, scheduled to open in September of 1966 , will enroll an estimated 1 , 000 students on opening day The building will include a gym- nasium , a combination cafeteria- auditorium , a modern kitchen , a special teaching area for remed- ial reading, a nurse ' s office , an art room , a library , a playroom and a music practice room. The building architect is George Dippell of Massapequa. The dark - of - tne - works is Charles Berglund Peace and Prosperity? Russians Want This Too Bab sot ' s forecast : (Editor ' s note: Each year , Roger W . Babson , noted business statistician , forecasts economic and political conditions for the coming year. His summary for 1965 follows: . ) Promising die people of the United States \ peace and pros- perity \ , President Johnson was carried to victory lastNoveraber on an over-whelming landslide. By nature he ls more likely to compromise than to contest. Also, he ls deeply sincere ln his desire to accelerate the eco- nomic growth of this country and to wipe out poverty. But we must not forget that both Woodrow Wilson and Frank- lin Roosevelt promised to keep America out of \ foreign \ wars. And already the British financial crisis has forced the Federal Reserve to raise its discount rate to 4%--despite President Johnson ' s dislike of higher money rates . Therefore , as we look for- ward to 1965 from our more than 60 years of experience In fore- casting and analysis , we empha- size once again that the great rolling tides of economic funda- mentals and social currents are likely to have a greater impact on what is to unfold than will the campaign promises of suc- cessful candidates. 1 . There will be no war with Russia during 1965. The Russian peopl e want some of the \ peace and prosperity \ that President Johnson promised our citizens. 2 . W atch Russia ' s satellites in 1965. They will try to make a deal with the new Moscow Ad- minlstratinn which will involve more trade and prosperity and less politics . Following Khrush- chev ' s fall , the satellites will aim for more consumer goods tor their peopl e rather than for more personal freedom. 3. Russia will not bring the Berlin issue to a crisis in 1965. The tendency will be to soft- pedal talk 4bout Berlin until Red China ' s course of action becomes clearer . 4. Red China made the biggest news in 1964 by exploding a nuclear bomb . In 1965 , Commun- ist China ' s greatest effort will be to gain admission to the United (Continued on page 3) Town Weighs Park Site Offer by Gravel Firm The Brookhaven Town Board and the Town Planning Board are awaiting details of a reported offer of a sand and gravel com - pany to give beach and park land to the town if it is permitted to mine a 450-acre tract along Wad- ing River Creek. \We haven ' t seen the exact proposal yet , \ said Supervisor Charles R , Dominy Tuesday. \It has yet to come before the Planning Board and the Town Board. It sounds like a good move , but we will be interested ln what the persons In the area •ay about it, 1 have been looking for « beach on the North Shore for the town. \ The supervisor verified that the Steers Sand and Gravel Corp. of Northport had offered to donate to the town a 78-acre site valued at $500 , 000 if the town grants an excavation permit and a zone change on t_ tie 450-acre parceL If the town would give the zone change and permit , the firm would deed the 78 acres to the town over the next seven years . Including a Long Island Sound beach and a six-acre artificia* . lake. It was reported that the remainder of the site would re- main under private ownership and be graded , covered with top- soil and seeded to prepare it for possible development as an upper-income residential area when mining operations are com- pleted in 25 to 30 years. The company plans to widen the creek into a 400-foo t wide channel to handle barges. A sand and gravel processing plant would be built along the creek . Fifty acres w ould be worked at a tme and the remainder would be avail- able for camping and hunting. As excavation advances the land would be covered with topsoiL The rehabilitation program that the firm carried out afte r its Northport mining operations has been praised by the North- port mayor. Tlie Woodhull House , built in 1675 , is the only occupied house on the land and plans are being made to preserve it as an his- toric monument. Utility, Fuoco Oppose Patchogue Bos Term inal Two bus companies have come out against any bus terminal for the Cente r of Patchogue. In letters to the Patchogue Village Board , Utility Lines , Inc. , of 185 Waverly A venue , Patch- ogue , and Louis A. Fuoco Bus Line of South Country Road , East Patchogue , the firms expressed satisfaction with the present sys- tem of stopping on Main Street , and pointed out that a terminal wou ld not permit them to ade- quately serve their customers. \ A terminal location , whether it would be at the easterly end or westerly end , \ wrote John R . Carter , Utility Lines ' president , \ w ould make it impossible for one or the other route to serve its present terminus. \ And Louis A . Fuoco , Jr., wrote that the use of a central terminal would make it \ very difficult for our company and any other company to coordi- nate schedules to satisfy our rid- ing passengers. \ Both companies endorsed the village ' s recent action in changing the bus stops at the Four Corners placing the eastbound stop on the east side and the westbound stop on the west side of the main intersection. Patchogue Mayor Robert T. Waldbauer indicated satisfaction with the response of the bus companies. He noted the prob- lems that Hempstead has had with its bus terminal in terms of vandalism , maintenance costs , and as a meeting place of various undersirable persons. He said Patchogue Village had taken the position that it would need some revenues if the village built the terminal , and that the bus com - panies had said they would not contribute to the construction of such a terminal. NURSE RY SCHOOLS The board will conduct a public hearing ' January 25 at 8 p.m. on a proposed ordinance requiring a special permit from the village board for establishing a nursery school in the village . The mayor instructed Village Attorney Robert Bauer Monday to draft the ordinance. In the dis- cussion , Mr. Bauer suggested that the question of a nursery school should be referred to the village ' s Zoning Board of Ap- peals. But the mayor contended that the village board has \ more responsibility for such a decision than the zoning board . \ At present a nursery school (Continued on pag e 4) Bi-County Plonning Bd. Is Delayed Action on the pro- posed creation of a bi- county planning board with Nassau and Suffolk taking part in compre- hensive planning was delayed Monday by the Suffolk Board of Super- visors , over the stren- uous objections of County Executive H. Lee Dennison. The board decided to put off creation of the two-county board until they meet with the Nassau County Board of Supervisors and Nassau County Executive Eugene Nickerson. County Executive Dennison sa id the joint meeting will pro- bably be held next Monday after- noon (J a nuary 4) at Suffolk ' s Planning Department Headquar- ters in Hauppauge. Suffolk Planning Director Lee K oppelman and Dennison first proposed the two-county planning body in late 1963 , but the idea was killed by the Board Chair- man Arthur M. Cromarty, County GOP Chairman , and the other Republican Supervisors of Suf- folk. Establishment of the bi-county planning board was disclosed last week by Nassau Vice Chairman of the Board of Supervisors Palmer D. Farrington. Nassau is expected to do its part by re- solution next Monday morning. Each county would have three voting members of the Board and several ex-offlcio members with no voting powers. The ex- officio members would include the two county planning directors, the county comptrollers of both counties , County Executives Den- nison and Nickerson , both County Public Works Commissioners , Farringto n , and Eva ns k. Gnff- (Conttnued on page 14) Three Area Persons Die in Two Accidents Two Others Are Killed Off of L.I. Three area persons were fatall y Injured and five persons hospitalized in area motor ve- hicle accidents over the holiday weekend , according to police re- ports in Suffolk. Killed Saturday in a head-on collision in Mount Sinai were George J. Spath , Jr ., 22 , of Cove Drive , Sound Beach , and Law- rence S . Blate , 29 , of Dandelion Road , Rocky Point . Griffith Van Hoesen , 15 , of Quogue , was In- jured December 24 in Speonk , and died Saturday in Central Suffolk Hospital , Riverhead. Tragedy also struck area families in accidents on the Ta- conic Parkway and the Connecti- cut Thruway. Allen L . Haws , 26 , of \ l onkers , the son of the Rev . Dr. Lester L . and Mrs. Hawa of Patchogue , was killed [Decem- ber 24 in Connecticut, The Rev. Mr. Haws is pastor of the Methodist Church of P atchogue. Also killed December 24 on Tacomc Parkway was Raymond A . Passman , 31 , of Syracuse , who was driving to Center Moric hes to visit his parents. (See obituary columns for fur- ther information) Sixth Precinc t police were un- * - able to determine which way the Spath and Blate autos were travelling since the wreckage of the two vehicles was so badly entangled . The rescue squad at the Terryville Fire Department took an hour to pry the bodies from the wreckage in the crash that took place on Route 25A , about 200 feet east of die Mount Sinai-Coram R oad. Mr. Blate , who was the father jf three , taught English at Van- dermeulen High School , Portjef- ferson. A bachelor , M* . Spath was a maintenance man for the Long Island Lighting Company. Young Van Hoes en , 15 , of Montauk Hgwy., Quogue , diedSat- urday at 8:40 a.m. Southampton Town Police said Van Hoesen was a passenge r in a car that collided with another auto at the intersection of Phillips Ave. and the Montauk Hgwy., Speonk , at about 5:15 p.m. Christmas Eve. The driver , EdwardT. Otis , IK, 18 of Old Depot Rd., Quogue , and another passenger , Dorothy Krawczyk , 17 , of Dock Rd., (Continued on page 2) Fa rmingville Ski Slope Fees Are Set The Brookha ven Town board held its last meeting of the year yesterday with Supervisor Charles .J\* .. Dominy presiding. With the town ' s newest park , that in Farmingville , nearing comple- tion , being its first ski area , fees were set for the ski tow at 25£ single trip, and $2. for one-half day ticket va lid after I p.m. and $3. for all day ticket. Mr Dominy was authorized to execute a contract with the Board of Cooperative Education Services for the Second Super- visory District , another step to- ward the establishment of the town ' s pilot \Pre-School Pro - ject \ for the education of 3 to 5 year olds from culturally de- prived backgrounds. This school is scheduled to open in January in the new educational wing of the Methodist Church of Patchogue , and will be administered by the Second Supervisory District ' s board of education, Regarding roads ln the incorp- orated Village of Port Jefferson , the town turned over to the vil- lage , for the sum of $8 , 500 , drainage facilities , easements and land which now come under the jurisdiction of the village as part of their over-all highw ay system. Bids were opened for the light- ing of three recreation fields , as follows; Holiday Park at Sel- den; Worrad of Medford $7 , 182; Ace Electric of Southampton , (Continued on page 2) F. I. Notional Seashore Years Top Area Story WINS CAR - Charles Torre of 250 North Prospect Aven ue , Patchogue , was announced as the winner of the 1965 automobile awarded by the member stores and businesses of the Merchants Division of the Patchogue Chamber of Commerce on Christmas eve. Mr. Torre ' s entry was drawn from among thou- sands that were filled out during the holiday shopping period in Patchogue . Mr. Torre , an employee of the Patchogue office of the Long Island Lighting Company, is a lie utenant in the National Guard , has been active In Scouting and is a graduate of the 1960 class of Patchogue High School. His wife , the former Barbara Ehmann , is a 1961 graduate of Patchogue High. The couple were married in A pril of this year. Pictured from left to right are Henry Roth , vice president of the Chamber of Commerce and chairman of the Merchants Division , pre senting keys to new automobile to Mr. Torre while Mrs. Torre looks on , and Edward Mitchell , executive director of tbe Chamber ' s merchants division. —Maple Leaf Photo Service daily Double Winner Scores : BY ROBERT B. MARTIN Lyndon B. Johnson ' s big Presidential win over Sen. Barry Goldwater at the polls last November , along with Democratic Party victories across the natio n , was the spotlig ht event of 1964 —but on the local level , the past year ' s most important sto ry came in September when the President signed into law the bill tha t established Fire Island as a National Seashore. Think hard , now: What would you say was the most Important e vent of the year involving a Suffolk Individual ? Give up ? It was the winning of the $171 , 084. 60 daily double at Yonkers Raceway October 21 by Ernie Dahlman , Jr. , 21 , of 433 East Main Street , Patchogue...the second highest payoff in racing history. And while on the subject of money, it was in November that the Brookhaven Town comptroller ' s office announced that school tax rates were up In 23 districts. A huge new county budget carried a 68-cent tax hike , with a 20-cent increase seen for next year. The new town budget carries a 30-cent rate increase from $3.33 to $3,628. In Patchogue Village , the tax rate went up 10 cents after a public hearing April 15 , from $3 .09 to $3.19. The forces of Nature m ight have made big news in 1964 had Hurricane Gladys paid a visit to Suffolk during the latter part of September. She certainly threatened us for awnile , causing high tides throughout the area , and then she veered away, m uch to the rel ief of us all. Drought conditions gave farmers a scare , lowered the level of many a well and burned the lawns. B y far , however , the natural condition that caused the most discomfort developed in July when a foul-smelling plague of rotting seaweed invaded the bayfront area. Various methods of getting rid of the stuff were offered and tried , including dragging it out of the bay. Before the Summer was over , residents were almost used to the odor. The year ' s biggest blizzard wasn ' t too much , as blizzards go. It hit the area January 12 with wind gusts up to 60 miles an hour and the temperature at 16 degrees . The snowfall amounted to 12 inches. So lt could be said that we were pretty fortunate. Not so fortunate were peopl e In Alaska when a monster earth- quake Jolted the area March 27. Local residents who happened to be there at the time included Pvt. David K . Waldron , stationed at the Army Message Center near Anchorage , Alaska . He is the son of Mr . and Mrs. August Waldron oi Bellport. Also , Matthew John (Continued on page 2) NP Man Remains Critical A fter Shotgun Shooting A 34-year-old father of two continued in critical condition today at Brookhaven Memorial Hospital after suffering shotgun wounds early Monda y at his North Patchogue home. LeRoy Gildersleeve of Buckley Road, was shot in the lower part of the face , the left side of the head and in the right shoulder , according to Fifth Squad Dets. Rupert Behan and Louis DeVito , who investigated the shooting. F ive doctors performed surgery Monday on the injured man. Held in lieu of $5 , 000 bail was the victim ' s wife , Helen , who was arraigned Monday before First District Court Judge Victor Or- gera on the charge of first-degree assault. She is scheduled to appear January 7 in the Commack court for a hearing. Det. Behan said that the shoot- ing took place about 1 a.m. following an argument between the couple. Police said that there was no evidence that either party had been drinking. When the shots were fired , police said , Mr. Gildersleeve was seated at the wheel of his car. Four shots were fired , police said , from the .410-gauge shotgun. The left roll- up window of the car was shattered by the blasts, Ptl. George Buckley gav e as much first aid as possible to the wounded man , who was taken to the hospital by the Patchogue Fire Department Ambulance . Det. Lieut. Joseph Hawkins reported tha t Ptl. Jack Seldon had been assigned Monday to remain with the victim at the hospital in case there were any statements which he could give to police. Mr. Gildersleeve is employed as a mechanic at Lawrence Aviation. Coaxial Cable TV Reception Is Questioned The central question at Mon- day ' s Patchogue Village Board public hearing was whether transmission of television by co- axial cable would give better re- ception for village residents. The one and one-half hour hearing was conducted by the board on the petition of Patch- ogue Broadcasting Company of Medford , for a non-exclusive 15- year contract for transmission and distribution of television try the cable through the village. Morton Morrison , vice-presi- dent of the firm , contended the coaxial cable would give \ better reception and a uniform signal on all stations. \ But his radio competitor in the county, Philip J. Kenter , president of Long Is- land Cablevislon Corp. in Green- port , said a \ cabl e system could add little to reception ln Patch- ogue. \ However , Mr. Kenter of North Patchogue , said he \ would neither oppose or approve grant- ing the franchise . \ Attorney Sanford Davldow charged that Mr. Kenter \ ap- pear s (before the village board) not as a village resident , but as the president of a competing corporation \ and noted that Mr. (Continued on page 14) Dates In This Isswo Although this issue of The Long Island Advance bears the dateline December 31 , 1964 , ln keeping with theweekly sequence the paper is out one day a- head of time to clear New Year ' s Eve day which falls on Thurs - day. News references are ac- tual. \Today \ means Wednes- day; \ tomorrow \ means Thurs- day, and so on. OLDEST , CONTINUOUS INDUSTRY WITHIN THE VILLAGE OF PATCHOGUE FOR CLASSIFIED ADS PLEASE TELEPHONE GR 5-1000—878-1000 FIRST PRIZE WINNER in the East section of the Patchogue Chamber of Commerce Christmas Home Decoration contest was the home of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Richardson , 171 Swan Lake Drive , Patchogue. First prize winners will receive $50 and second prize winners , $35 , in each section. (See story else- where in this issue.) —Maple Leaf Photo Service
